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Martin Becker

@martinbckr.bsky.social
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Namibian 🇳🇦 living in South Africa 🇿🇦 in the City of Gold. Being entertained has never been this exhausting. This account is influencer-adjacent, repost-prone, and only a 5-minute walk from sanity.

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Martin Becker @martinbckr.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The scary part is, none of the other big organisations/corporations/countries are using this angle
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Reuters @reuters.com · 09/10/2026
South Africa's Navanethem "Navi" Pillay wins 2026 Nobel Peace Prize reut.rs/4zmYDPW
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South Africa's Navanethem "Navi" Pillay wins 2026 Nobel Peace Prize
South African judge Navanethem "Navi" Pillay won the Nobel Peace ​Prize on Friday "for her efforts to promote ‌peace and international law," the Norwegian Nobel Committee said.
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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
imagine seeing a scene like this and thinking "yes, this is good" just speaking personally here it makes me incandescent with rage
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/09/2026
LMFAO -- Trump is holding an event at the White House right now but there's no audio because the press pool isn't there. The Newsmax host notes that this is an example of Trump's attacks on the press "backfiring just a little bit"
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Standplaats Kraków could really use some cash! @standplaatskrk.pl · 16/10/2024
a white mouse is piloting a car made out of a wedge of aged cheese: it has a little spoiler, and all terrain tires. Caption reads *thunderous engine noises*
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Standplaats Kraków could really use some cash! @standplaatskrk.pl · 16/10/2024
Lauren McLean (@climatelauren)

The Youth: "We want the
planet to stay habitable"

Politicians: "Okay, but have
you considered a more
moderate position? Some
kind of compromise?"
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Standplaats Kraków could really use some cash! @standplaatskrk.pl · 16/10/2024
Couple Texting in Bed, a four-panel webcomic depicting a couple texting each other in their beds, with the boy and the girl being the male Snoo and female Snooette mascots from /r/Teenagers.

In this version the boy and the girl block each other in the first 2 panels, after which they both seem happy and relaxed.
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SwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com · 06/09/2026
Reaction videos are just pre-chewed food for GenZ
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BubbaYega @bubbayega.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
A friend told me when he was a camp counselor he walked into his cabin late night and one of his campers shot up in bed, slowly pointed around the room with his eyes closed and said “which one of you is the evil one?”
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聖☆Alex Degen @adactivity.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
A girl I dated in my early 20s once while asleep opened her eyes and sat up to say “my apartment has two bathrooms” and I was like “no it just has one” and she laid back down and said “it hides when you come over”
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ceej @ceej.online · 12/06/2024
My wife, a prodigious sleep-talker, failed to disclose her affliction when we started dating, which led to the fright of my life the night she sat bolt upright in bed and in a low flat monotone loudly declared that “THIRTEEN BABIES REMAIN UNFATHERED.”
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futuredadOfTwo🙋🏻‍♂️ @lacroixboi.dadguy.pro · 05/09/2026
positioning the monkey’s paw to curl on top of this knot in my neck
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Martin Becker @martinbckr.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
There is a decent chance that a sizeable portion of Reform voters and members are just undercover journalists at this point
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Joe Berkowitz @joeberkowitz.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
There's little Trump loves more than screaming "I'm technically allowed to do this!" about the dumbest plan you've ever heard.
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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Remembering that Trump is a boomer real estate developer from Queens remains one of the best ways to understand why he is how he is
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The Map Center @mapcenter.com · 02/09/2026
Kind of impressive that most of his famous studies had small n values and were done on college students and he still had to invent data to get the results he wanted.
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Rude Law Dog @esghound.com · 02/09/2026
agree with ketan's sentiment but also you should read the undressing performed by datacolada here. it is spectacular datacolada.org/138
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[138] Artificial Deadlines (Part 1): Evidence of Fraud in an Influential Study About Procrastination
A new paper in Psychological Science (.htm) reports a failure to replicate Study 2 of Ariely and Wertenbroch’s influential article entitled, “Procrastination, Deadlines, and Performance: Self-Contr…
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One Dog’s Opinion 🐾 @onedogsopinion.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
a lost and found but for reasons not to cry
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Adam Ellis @adamtots.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
😦
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Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
“There’s a new Mr. Beast book.” You bolt awake in your workshop in Mainz. It’s 1450. You’re Johannes Gutenberg, and you’ve changed your mind. The future cannot come to pass. Your printing press must burn.
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T @mamafirefly.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
may not be funny or likeable but at least i’m
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
🇫🇷 FRANCE: “A photograph of Palestinian footballers playing on a makeshift pitch surrounded by the ruins of Gaza has been removed from a major sports photography exhibition in France following complaints from pro-Israel campaigners.” greatreporter.com/2026/08/25/e...
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Naomi Saphra @nsaphra.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Vast and Trunkless Leg of Stone, Standing in the Desert from classic poem Ozymandias.
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
automatically running signal messages through a stranger's AI is, I think, the worst pitch and idea I've ever been cold pitched in my life and that is saying a lot
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fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Learned a bit of Korean to impress a woman I like. Turns out she's from Thailand, not Korea.
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mave @mave.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
when my phone is fully charged: (calm, rational) hello when i’m on 2%: (wild-eyed, sweaty) i must know the filming locations for vertigo immediately
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Martin Becker @martinbckr.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
This is such a fucking stupid line of reasoning. Devoid of even the most basic scientific method.
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
we asked it if it is alive and it said yes. we asked it if it has feelings and it said yes. we are forced to assume it is telling the truth and is also my girlfriend
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Jason Bender @jasonbender.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
ABC Always Be Cheugy
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🚲insert into haunted select uid from partisans where party = "R" @db-user.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
lots of the best tech you can implement in a modern environment was created 20-30 years ago, you just have to be willing to do all the work to implement it most solutions invented recently are simply solutions to "what if we don't want to do the work tho?"
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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
just in general I think it reflects badly if you have to keep saying your military is lethal. who has a non-lethal military
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Tariq Panja @tariqpanja.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Post from the Iran team
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Let’s please steer the conversation back to my Nazi tattoo. by Graham Platner
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Colin Warriner @colinelmustard.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
I think this might be one of the most incredible, unsettling and symbolic photos of today’s America I’ve ever seen. I can’t stop looking at it. From Reuters, published on the Guardian website.
Lightning strikes behind the illuminated Washington Monument, as people gather to watch 250th anniversary fireworks.
Photograph: Nathan Howard/Reuters
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Katie Drummond @katie-drummond.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
NEW: Meta paid hundreds of contractors to pretend they were kids—and then prompt rival chatbots like Gemini and ChatGPT to talk about subjects like suicide, sex, eating disorders, and self-harm. From @dmehro.bsky.social and @joelkhalili.bsky.social
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Meta Contractors Posed as Teens to Prompt Rival Chatbots About Suicide, Sex, and Drugs
Hundreds of contractors working on a project for Meta pretended to be kids—and then prompted rival chatbots like Gemini and ChatGPT to discuss high-risk subjects.
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Technically, they’re Remains now.
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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
they are on Threads fighting to the death over whether or not it is ableist for an author to use the word “scrying" (people might not know the definition!). how beautiful. people staring into their phones and getting so emotional over “scrying.” perhaps there really is magic in reflective surfaces!
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Brian Phillips @brianphillips.lol · 21/06/2026
"Welcome to Kansas City, where Ecuador has struggled to score against Curaçao." Meanwhile, across town, Samantha was also struggling with curaçao, and she, too, was trying to score
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Richard L Pastore 📚🏳️‍🌈 @rlpastore.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Oh, Planet of the Apes will definitely happen. The main difference being Caesar starts out as a Survey Monkey.
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Uncle Duke @uncleduke1969.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Parents, please remember to talk to your kids. Without your help and guidance, the day-to-day stress and anxiety of childhood can have some profound and devastating psychological and physical effects.
TV screen shot of elderly man labeled “Parker Logan, Age 6.”
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👻 “Frightening” IrishOutsider 👻 @irishoutsider.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
If the Matt is Taibbi, just scroll past, habibi
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Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 17/06/2026
If you look at pay, male professional footballers are paid more for being male than they are for being good at football.
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
One of the secrets about the FT is that if you buy the paper they sometimes tell you what they really really think before some subeditor spots it. Compare the print and digital copy about SpaceX www.ft.com/content/1638...
Investors were not deterred by a series of science fiction targets and fantastical financial projections, combined with one of the most lax corporate governance regimes in history.Investors were undeterred by the lofty financial projections pitched by SpaceX's underwriters during the IPO roadshow nor by one of the most lax corporate governance regimes in history.
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Martin Becker @martinbckr.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Reminiscent of the same phenomenon regarding crypto, and then NFTs.
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Martin Becker @martinbckr.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Train of Thought is the best Dream Theater album.
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Zach Wilson @televisionaryzw.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
This chart remains undefeated
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Huw Swanborough @huwroscience.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
What makes me laugh is the amount of advertising research being done using LLMs. A field whose sole concern is identifying new trends is using the average of past trends and patting themselves on the back for the efficiency of... Measuring what humans want to buy, but not asking any humans.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
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Martin Becker @martinbckr.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
"Why don't you ask the kids at Tiananmen Square Was fashion the reason why they were there? They disguised and hypnotized The tunnel vision leaves us blinded I'm just sitting in my car and waiting for my girl." The world really needs these guys again.
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